Bug 22667 - yppasswd creates DES passwords
Summary: yppasswd creates DES passwords
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: yp-tools
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
high
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Alexander Larsson
QA Contact: Aaron Brown
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: 3243 22674 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-12-21 15:20 UTC by Gerald Teschl
Modified: 2007-03-27 03:38 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2002-03-22 17:24:57 UTC
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Description Gerald Teschl 2000-12-21 15:20:20 UTC 
yppasswd creates DES encrypted passwords even if md5 is set and even if
the old password was md5.
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2000-12-22 05:29:22 UTC 
*** Bug 22674 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Gerald Teschl 2001-01-17 18:47:17 UTC 
Since the ordinary passwd does it right I recommend to remove yppasswd and
replace it
by a link to passwd.
Comment 3 Alexander Larsson 2002-03-21 15:44:36 UTC 
*** Bug 3243 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Alexander Larsson 2002-03-22 17:24:52 UTC 
I think passwd may be broken actually. I think it looks at the local
configuration and uses md5 if it is used there. setting an md5 password on the
nis server may break login from non-md5 capable machines.

I agree that we should set a md5 password if the previous one is md5 though.
Comment 5 Alexander Larsson 2002-03-25 16:19:42 UTC 
yp-tools-2.6-4 sets a MD5 password if the old one was MD5. This is the best we
can do I think.
Comment 6 Doug Sibley 2003-09-15 12:52:53 UTC 
When I try to add a new already crypted password in MD5 format $1$<salt>$<hash>
via useradd -p I get a blank entry in my nis shadow table. Certianly this is an
easy enough to fix bug.
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